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The Government promised payments of at least £75,000 for subpostmasters involved in the group legal action led by Alan Bates, the subject of ITV’s drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, starring ...
A petition demanding compensation for people affected by the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is nearing 600,000 signatures, as campaigner Alan Bates gives evidence to the public inquiry into the ...
Subpostmasters are self-employed business operators, who run Post Office branches under contract to the state-owned Post Office. [a] In 1999 the Post Office rolled out new electronic point of sale and accounting software, Horizon (produced and maintained by Fujitsu), to its network of over 11,000 branches. [1]
The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent financial shortfalls caused by faults in Horizon, an accounting software system developed by Fujitsu. Between 1999 and 2015, more than 900 subpostmasters were convicted of theft, fraud and ...
Sir Alan Bates (born 1954 or 1955) is a former subpostmaster and a leading campaigner for victims of the British Post Office scandal, in which thousands of subpostmasters were accused of dishonesty when faulty Post Office accounting software created shortfalls in their accounts. After the Post Office terminated his contract in 2003 over a false ...
More than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted by the Post Office and handed criminal convictions between 1999 and 2015.
A public inquiry in to the scandal heard final submissions in December, where it took evidence from lawyers representing the Post Office, Horizon's creators Fujitsu, and the Department for ...
Josephine Hamilton OBE (born 1957 [2] [3]) is a former subpostmaster and a campaigner for justice for victims of the British Post Office scandal.She ran a village post office in Hampshire from 2001 until 2006, when she was suspended and then wrongly prosecuted for shortfalls caused by the Post Office faulty accounting software, Horizon.